[forum] some XFree86 5.0 questions...

[Alan Coopersmith]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 02:41:53PM +0100, Martijn Sipkema wrote:
> 
>>Will XFree86 5.0 use Xft for font rendering or might
>>it (also) use Sun's STSF (http://stsf.sf.net)?
> 
> Xft is the standard. STSF is a bad design, and none of the toolkits
> that matter are interested in supporting it.

I'll admit we've found some problems with STSF that we've corrected
in our current development (yes, the web site is out of date, we're
working on an update), but we've found the core design works well for
us.  What about it do you find to be bad?

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